"Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con."

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Source : "Carolyn Hax Live: Advice Columnist Tackles Your Problems". Live Discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. August 7, 2009.

Carolyn Hax

#Real Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Negative Quotes

“I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.”
“The more equipment you shlep around the less you will enjoy the equipment you shlep around.”
“[John Cassavetes] came backstage afterwards and introduced himself and we talked a bit, and then went for a little coffee at the Russian Tea Room next door. It just...started.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely”
“So all you want is a kiss?" I asked. A little voice in my head said I was heading for one of those slippery slopes. I told the little voice to shut up. "Well, maybe more than one. But basically, yeah.”

Source : Jenna Black (2010). “Glimmerglass: A Faeriewalker Novel”, p.120, Macmillan
“Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.”
“Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some stuff to love.”
“I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.”

Source : Mike Royko, Lois Wille (2000). “One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

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